I need to more or reduce the size of my aslog_log. It's taking about 6.6 Gb on C: on my server which is desperately low on space. All of the miscellaneous CA db files are taking 7.4 Gb. They're the single largest thing taking up space, next to the pagefile.

I need to more or reduce the size of my aslog_log. It's taking about 6.6 Gb on C: on my server which is desperately low on space. All of the miscellaneous CA db files are taking 7.4 Gb. They're the single largest thing taking up space, next to the pagefile.

Any ideas?

Sorry for replying late. The following steps will help in pruning the entries in the Activity log

=> Logon to the ARCserve machine using the ARCserve system account or administrator account.
=> Open up the ARCserve Manager, Click on Job Status Manager under the Quick start menu bar.
=> Job status manager window will open, on the right hand side of the screen click on the "Activity log" tab.
=> On the menu bar you will see an icon named "Delete" .
=> A popup window will be displayed giving the option to "Prune the Entire log" or "Partial Log".
=> Select the option that you need and then click on the "OK" button to confirm it.
=> The content in the activity log will be pruned as per your requirement.

Sorry for replying late. The following steps will help in pruning the entries in the Activity log

=> Logon to the ARCserve machine using the ARCserve system account or administrator account.
=> Open up the ARCserve Manager, Click on Job Status Manager under the Quick start menu bar.
=> Job status manager window will open, on the right hand side of the screen click on the "Activity log" tab.
=> On the menu bar you will see an icon named "Delete" .
=> A popup window will be displayed giving the option to "Prune the Entire log" or "Partial Log".
=> Select the option that you need and then click on the "OK" button to confirm it.
=> The content in the activity log will be pruned as per your requirement.

Thanks. That was an epic fail. The aslog is now even bigger.

Over the weekend I moved my page file to another partition. This morning I had almost 7 Gb free on C: I just followed your instructions, told it to prune entries older than 3 months. I now have just under 1 Gb free again and the aslog is now 10.74 Gb. The activity log still shows entries going back 13 months.

Guess I finally got enough free space to run the DB Pruning job. My miscellaneous ArcServe db's are down to 1.4 GB total. Most of that about 1 GB is a tempdb.mdf. Now have slightly over 12 GB free on my server. Yay!

If the Database protection job runs daily on your ARCserve server, then you can restore the old logs at any point of time (if you need to look at them for some reason)

The other thing is you may want to check is what is causing the large number of logs to be generated on a daily basis:
a) Do you run your backups with ‘Log all activity’ enabled?
b) Do you run too many backup jobs? If yes, try consolidating the number of backup jobs to a smaller count (including more backup machines per job)
c) You may want to try running your backups with ‘Log disabled’ backup option. This would not generate any job log, but you can still see your backup status in activity log.
d) You may try manually running the ca_log command (located in ARCserve home directory) to purge the logs. Try below on command line and you can find the syntax:
ca_log -examples
This will purge the activity log records older than 4 days
You can schedule to run the above command through ARCserve job scheduler

I had logs going back over a year. I only look at the logs when a job fails and periodically for warnings. Generally the warnings are just files it can't access at the time and it's never anything important.

The DB Pruning job has cleaned it up to just the last three weeks. I must have had a problem with the job in the past, which is why I had it on hold. I'll leave it running and see what happens.

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